Word: outfit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because the safety of an entire guerrilla outfit depends on the skill and dependability of each man, the Special Forces operate under a unique system of choosing personnel for combat. After a detachment has been through maneuvers, every member-officer and enlisted man alike-has the right to blackball any other member right out of the unit. Of the 100 men originally picked for a tour of duty in South Viet Nam, only 32 survived the screening and the blackballing. "There's nothing personal about the blackballing," says an officer. "Everyone understands the process. It's just that...
...private-eye shows can now watch Telad Corp.'s repeating half-hour program on what to buy, do and see in New York; this week and next, Telad will open shop on Channel 6 (normally a blank on the dial) in two other New York hotels. A rival outfit, Teleguide, will start broadcasting via its own coaxial cable to some 12,000 rooms at a dozen Manhattan hostelries this week. Its basic one-hour program will include entertainment, shopping and sightseeing news-plus weather and transportation reports, rundowns on special events, gallery openings, and availability of tickets for Broadway...
Coach Nat Harris' Crimson freshmen seek to improve their 5-6-2 record this afternoon with a game at Brown. The Bear Cubs, who trounced the Yardlings 11 to 1 two weeks ago, are a fast, high scoring outfit and one of the most highly regarded freshman clubs in the Northeast...
...expect to use the same outfit as usual," Cooney added. This is the same team that edged B.C. earlier this season, 3 to 2. In that game the Crimson also controlled most of the play but needed a "garbage goal" by Gene Kinasewich to beat some sensational goal tending by the Eagles' Charlie Driscoll...
...drive to bring back Quadros centers in the Popular Movement for Jânio Quadros. a Citizens-for-Eisenhower-type outfit now tuning up for the October congressional elections. The movement is working to get Quadros nominated for Parliament in every one of Brazil's 21 states, and to push a full slate of pro-Quadros candidates. The hope is to win a parliamentary majority and thus sweep their hero into the prime ministership (which, in the hands of a strong-willed man with a fresh mandate, could be a powerful office...